I know it’s super unlikely, but I almost thought Haruko was the senior of theirs that failed twice, and she was given the label of loser and that’s why she became a shut in. It’s probably someone else, since it just seems like Haruko is extremely shy and a bit misanthropic.
@Saamok a lot of the stuff that’s “offensive” in these novels obviously doesn’t reflect modern Chinese values but it’s more a reflection of like super antiquated values that have been parodied into its own genre due to decades of television court dramas and stuff. Even in modern China, these...
@kinosseur it’s like when mainland Chinese people give their kids weird English names Rambo, Superman, Potato, Bambi, Sundae. Except the choice of German words is even worse cause some of these aren’t even nouns.
@lil_literalist I didn’t really see it as a Japanese exceptionalism thing but more like a, this dude spent his life on sumo and it is his martial art of choice, if he didn’t use sumo and instead just swung randomly, he would’ve done much worse
As someone who does practice Okinawan karate and as someone who regularly uses a makiwara, this is so cool. But also, no one I know has ever made a makiwara out of metal, they’re almost always made of wood.
I still don’t get it. It’s not like this guy was the first to overpower aiki. Didn’t Jack do it in the maxim tournament? That’s the whole reason Shibukawa lost. So why are they making it out to be like this guy was the strongest opponent Shibukawa had ever faced?
I'm sorta okay with this though? I mean, we've seen aiki be overpowered by sheer force before, so it's not like it's a completely alien concept. Jack literally overpowered Shibukawa's aiki in the maxim tournament, and I can totally see this huge sumo wrestler having enough lifting power to rival...